What’s on the Easel

Transition

October 10, 2011

Oil on Linen 30 by 40 in. An oil painting in progress. Its leaning against the studio wall drying while I evaluate its future outcome.

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New Work

October 7, 2011

I’m participating in a show this month to benefit Crossnore School. Its October 26, at the Charlotte Country Club, North Carolina. Here are some new egg tempera paintings I’m working on.  I often frame them  towards the end. It gives me incentive to carry on. Welcome egg tempera, 14 x 18 in.   Dune Path [...]

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Lost Cat

August 1, 2011

Around 5 years ago I started a tempera painting of a cat dozing in an Adirondack chair. She was a pretty hefty thing. Everyday after eating she would get up in that chair and take a nap for hours in the morning sun. So I decided to paint her from life in egg tempera. I [...]

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The Elusive Charolais Cow

July 22, 2011

Charolais egg tempera on panel 18 by 14 in. private collection A couple of years ago I noticed the pastures around the studio in North Carolina were populated by pure white cows. Numerous cows, spread all over the land of the surrounding countryside. Beautiful creatures, going about their cow business; lying down, grazing and lying [...]

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